Cloud storage for documentary filmmakers
Keep decades of rushes safe, revisit old footage without shipping drives.
Documentary archives grow across many years
A feature documentary shot over five years produces 20 to 50 TB of rushes. Keeping that on external drives means a constant risk of failure: a drive that sat in a drawer for two years may not spin up, and a single bad cable can take a season of interviews with it.
The second problem is access. When you need one scene shot in year one to re-cut in year five, finding it means hunting across a shelf of drives, plugging each in, and hoping the labels still match. An archive you cannot search quickly is an archive you stop using.
Long-term archive with fast retrieval
Sanbila Enterprise holds 25 TB, with per-TB overage above that, all in cloud storage with an automatic backup copy. A checksum is recorded for every rush and verified on both copies, so bit rot or a silent corruption is caught rather than discovered years later when you reopen the file.
Because the whole archive lives in one place, re-cutting an old scene does not mean pulling the entire project back. Smart Relink streams only the clips your new timeline references, so you reopen a five-year-old interview on a laptop in minutes, grade or recut it, and leave the rest of the 50 TB untouched in the cloud.
Long-term reliable storage
Dual redundant backup, checksummed, no bit rot.
Selective retrieval
Smart Relink streams only the clips you need for a re-cut, not the entire archive.
Archive old projects
Move completed projects to Archive state in Sanbila, keep them accessible anytime.
Enterprise overage
Scale beyond 25 TB at $20 per TB per month when your decade of rushes needs more.
Sanbila by the numbers
Real specs from the live Sanbila product, not marketing claims.
Frequently asked questions
How safe are rushes kept over many years?+
Every rush sits in cloud storage with an automatic backup copy and is checksummed at upload and re-verified on download, so a failed external drive or silent bit rot never costs you footage from years back.
Can I re-cut an old scene without pulling the whole archive?+
Yes. Smart Relink streams only the clips a re-cut needs from the cloud, so you revisit a scene from five years ago without downloading the full 20 to 50 TB archive.
What happens to a finished documentary's footage?+
Move the project to Archive state in Sanbila. The rushes stay in the cloud with their backup copy and remain reachable any time you need to open the project again, with no drive to dig out.
What does a decade of rushes cost to keep?+
The Enterprise plan holds 25 TB and bills $20 per TB per month beyond that, so an archive that grows past 25 TB over the years scales by the terabyte instead of by a wall of external drives.
Protect decades of rushes in the cloud
Enterprise 25 TB plus overage for long-form documentary archives.
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